Cottage by the River

I’m back from KL!!

DAY 1

When we met that the airport on Friday morning, it occur to us that we both forgot to bring our camera. I really got no idea why did we buy our camera for. Both of us are proud owners beautiful pearl white Sony T10, but it’s seriously under utilized. So we console ourselves that since there are only 2 of us on this trip, and it’s a shopping trip anyway, it might be a bit redundant for photo taking.

So this concludes that the rest of the post will be all in WORDS.

So we happily check in at the Airport at 10am, and reached KL Airport at 11.30am. It’s really fast… After this trip, I seriously recommend everyone fly to KL instead of coach. Its really faster, and not tiring, and most importantly, it really gets you on a holiday mood.

Her uncle came to pick us up at the KL Airport. It’s a 1hr drive to the KL central. We check-in the hotel, and we got a shock of our life… a good one thou.

Our accommodation is at Prince Hotel. It’s a 5 stay hotel situated just opposite the newly opened Pavilion Shopping Centre. The accommodation is fully sponcered by Qian’s Dad, and he generously gave us a 1 bedroom service apartment at Prince Hotel. (Okie, regret no. 1 that we didn’t bring camera) It’s a beautifully furnished room, with a equipped kitchen, dining area, living room area, and of coz a bedroom with a King size bed.

Wasting no time, we quickly put down our stuff, and proceed to KLCC. Which by xin’s standard, it’s a 10min walk from Prince Hotel.

Some points to note to pedestrians in KL

There is seriously a lack of traffic lights on the road.
Even with traffic lights, with the little green man shinning, cars can still horned the pedestrians and drove through the red lights.
Malaysian drivers have no idea whats a ‘Zebra Crossing’. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I always thought ‘Zebra Crossing is a international symbol. NO CARS stop at zebra crossings.

So well, Qian and myself performed numerous spectacular jay-walking stunts, and always end up running across the road, like we’re some fugitives…

Okie, so we’re at KLCC. Its crowded. So by 6pm, we intend to walk back to Pavilion, our plan was to find some good Japanese food there. But when we walk out of KLCC, we realized that its raining, heavily. So we decided to take a cab back to Pavilion. At the taxi stand, we stop 2 cabs… And they daringly want to charge us MYR20 for the trip back to Pavilion.

By xin’s standard, it’s a 10min walk from Pavilion to KLCC. And they want to charge us MYR20!!! Call this day light robbery. So of coz, we refuse to part with the money… We ended up having dinner at Nippon Tei. Which was not what we have in mind a ‘Good’ Japanese food. But, well… we are 2 stingy girls which refuse to part with that MYR20.

But nevertheless, it was a hearty meal with hotplate shells, BBQ eels and guoza… And it cost us MYR100.

Its close to 9pm, and we realized that its still raining. Not wanting to spend MYR20 on cab, we went to the supermarket, bought a MYR7.99 brelly, and both of us walk back to Pavilion.

Reached Pavilion, realized they have late night shopping till 11pm! So we continues to shop and walk…
And finally at 11.30pm, we retired back to the ever welcoming hotel… =)

We had a quick shower, put on the mask, and promptly fall aslp…


DAY 2

Woke up early, and after an hour of preparation both of us was pretty to go… 2 pretty girls decked out in dresses today…

We had our breakfast at lvl 10 of the hotel, away from the usual hotel lobby crowd. This is specially catered for the apartment guests. So well, it’s definitely exclusive, and not to mentioned that the service is more personalized, and the food is not the usual ‘buffet fare’… A quick look around, we appear to be the only Chinese. The other were mostly Caucasians, with a handful of Japanese…

Not wanting to waste too much time, we made our way to Pavilion, and begin our shoe hunt again. We were there till noon, then we decided we had enough of Pavilion, and took a cab to another maga shopping complex – Mid Valley.

We were a little thirsty, and slightly hungry when we reached Mid Valley. So we settled down at Secret Recipe for a break. We chose Secret Recipe over Starbucks, thinking we’re kind of tired, and would want to be served. Rather then self-service.

And this turned out to be A BIG MISTAKE!

The service is HORRIBLE!

So well, I don’t want to go into details… BUT I’ll not give Malaysia’s secret recipe another chance again, unless due to very extreme circumstances.

So we continue our shopping at Mid Valley after the break… Plenty of cardio workouts there. We finally decided that we are very tired, so we settled down at a dainty place, for our medi/ pedicure. This is really a very self-pampering trip… =)

After the medi/ pedicure, we wanted to find a nice place for dinner… Maybe at Pavilion since it’s a much more ‘atas’ place… So there should be plenty more choices since we are really keen to go all out to pamper ourselves. But unfortunately, its raining again. -_-

And as we are super stingy with the cabby overcharging us, we decided to eat at Mid Valley… We look through the directory, and decided on Korean Food. And my oh my. This is definitely a treat. =)

It is a very small shop, located on the ‘balcony’ level of lvl 3. We had a hard time locating it, and when we finally do, we have no regrets. They serve authentic Korean BBQ, all served by native Koreans… 2 girls, and we ordered 2 different type of meat, which the waitress said it’s enough for 3 people. -_-

We had a satisfied meal, BBQ-ing on a cold raining day is so fantastic! And the meal cost us less then MYR 80. CHEAP!!

By then, we have really covered the whole Mid Valley, we decided to take a cab back to Pavilion. And finally, we met a over-friendly cabby, who talked the entire trip… But he charge us based on the meter, like Singapore. The total fare came up to MYR 8, but we paid him a 10 and asked him to keep the change. =)

Its 9pm at Pavilion… We combed the shops again. And funnily, shoes that doesn’t catch my eyes in the morning, caught my eye just then… So we bought some more. =)

By 10plus, shops are closing and we are really bashed. But still not willing to return to the apartment just yet we found a nice pub at Pavilion and we seat down for a drink. I must say that their cocktail seemed to have a higher alcohol content as compared to Singapore. First sip, and you can really feel the punch. Unlike the local ones, which normally taste more mocktail…

We chilled out till around 12.30am, and made our way back to the apartment… I am tired, but I have to start packing. So by the time both us showered, put on another mask and go to bed, its close to 2am.

DAY 3

Woke up bright and early too, went for breakfast at lvl 10 again. We wasted no time, and we made our way to Pavilion. We made appointment for a full package spa at 10.30am. This is a very unique spa, it begins with putting your feet in a pond, and little fishes will swim around your feet, ‘eating’ the dead skin. And follow by a feet, shoulder and head massage. Both of us were very excited about the fishes, and we reached Pavilion at 10am. We shopped around a bit more, I bought more earrings, and finally at 10.30am we made our way down.

Okie, great disappointment. We saw that the shop was not opened yet, and there are 2 ladies standing outside the shop. We approached them, and they told us the shop encountered short circuit last night, and will not be on operation today… *sad*

We were very upset, but nevertheless we do not want to waste our last day there. So we walked to KLCC, coz we remembered there’s this shop we passed by the other day that offers massage services. Both of us did a full relaxing body massage there.

Not the very best, not okie, better then nothing.

After which we walked back to the hotel, the cab that Qian’s dad arranged to pick us up to the Airport is already waiting for us.

And this, is my 3D2N KL Trip with Qian. =)

Okie, what I have buy back:-

3 pairs of Shoes
4 pairs of Earrings
2 Tops

Not a lot I know… but well, nothing really caught our eye.

But we still have a splendid holiday.

Quite wasted that we didn’t bring our camera along, coz there are plenty of interesting happenings that should have gone down in pictures.

I have a most wonderful time with Qian, I thank her for spending the time with me. Being the best companion anyone can ever wished for.

And today is this girl’s birthday, so I also want to wish Qian: HAPPY BIRTHDAY GER!! Still got to go through the formality. I still want to wish you all happiness, and wishes come true. Stay pretty and grow an inch taller, we’ll go in search of our true prince charming together kae. =)

~*~

This trip, also ended the 4yr coming 5yr relationship with Xiang. I truly felt how insignificant I am to him, and I definitely believe I deserved someone better. I do not want to strain the relationship further. I’m not going to talk about this further, just leave things as it is for the time being…

I always thought happiness is in my own hands, but I realized that its not. It takes 2 hands to clap, I cannot create happiness simply out from my own hands. =)